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Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

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Re: Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

#131
Sounds like this person is bad at advertising and marketing, and looking to blame anyone but themselves.

My guess is the content of the ad was poorly paired with the landing page. For what it's worth, I ran a LinkedIn campaign, had a $10 CPC with about a 40% conversion rate from a click to lead.

Also that sure is a lot of "conclusions" to make very little data.

Re: Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

#132
post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That only matters if you can prove there was fraud.

If LI were still a public company, this behaviour would destroy their stock price. There is something to be said for public markets and accountability.

Being that LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft, they are a public company.

Re: Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

#133
post #90

A sample size of of 2,000 impressions is absolutely useless. Even the larger example is completely useless. I don’t even considering analyzing a campaign with less than 50k impressions, and I won’t look at a variable if it’s under 10k. Realistically I want a few hundred thousand impressions before trying to make big claims about fraud.

I hear you, but often times in B2B advertising, your target audiences are going to be small. How would you suggest assessing the success/failure of your ad campaigns if it's an order of magnitude less than your 50k threshold?

Re: Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

#134
This reminds me of our Google AdWords experience for our enterprise analytics product. We started with an experienced marketing consultant and later a Google-provided account manager joined. We were tuning our acct setup to get signups at an industry avg, yet some reason the leads rarely qualified. Checking in a month or two into their experiment, I realized half our budget was going to middle school students using google as a calculator for their algebra homework!

That was a bit of an 'aha' for me for their position in the market.

Re: Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

#135
post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"LinkedIn says 11, our server logs show 10, our actual reporting software's only showing 8 people. The only reason that we would not see them pop up in this logging tool is that they were on the site and bounced so quickly that the logging tool was unable to load and capture anything of their session [We've went back and forth will the session recording company multiple times to confirm that]" Seems awareness of ad/t…

I'm sure Facebook will be lower than this in terms of awareness of adblock, considering the number of oldies there (including my relatives) who can't distinguish between sponsored content and original content. I'm honestly surprised LinkedIn has such high numbers, since I assumed the LinkedIn crowd would be more technologically savvy.

I think the parent comment is about adblock awareness by advertisers. One reason their invasive tracking might say they have less visitors than their ad network is because some of the people clicking their ads block their invasive tracking.

Re: Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

#136

I observed the same with Google's "Smart" display ads. I ran a campaign for a couple of weeks and watched all of the traffic with HotJar. The first fishy thing was 99.9% of the traffic came from foreign countries despite the target being US/Canada. When I saw the targeting wasn't effective, I even set up specific geographic exclusions for every country != US/Canada and still the traffic was from mostly underdeveloped…

Display network has been like that for atleast 10 years that I have been using it.

Re: Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

#137
post #127

I observed the same with Google's "Smart" display ads. I ran a campaign for a couple of weeks and watched all of the traffic with HotJar. The first fishy thing was 99.9% of the traffic came from foreign countries despite the target being US/Canada. When I saw the targeting wasn't effective, I even set up specific geographic exclusions for every country != US/Canada and still the traffic was from mostly underdeveloped…

the default setting on Google location targeting is/was "user in [geo] OR user 'interested' in [geo]." which is insane! but could explain the location weirdness

I know this isn't tech support, but is there somewhere I can read about changing this? And you are damn right, it's extremely astonishing seeing as how "target geo" != "interested in" at least on it's face.

Re: Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

#138
post #136

I observed the same with Google's "Smart" display ads. I ran a campaign for a couple of weeks and watched all of the traffic with HotJar. The first fishy thing was 99.9% of the traffic came from foreign countries despite the target being US/Canada. When I saw the targeting wasn't effective, I even set up specific geographic exclusions for every country != US/Canada and still the traffic was from mostly underdeveloped…

Display network has been like that for atleast 10 years that I have been using it.

Why continue to use it?

Re: Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

#139
post #136

I observed the same with Google's "Smart" display ads. I ran a campaign for a couple of weeks and watched all of the traffic with HotJar. The first fishy thing was 99.9% of the traffic came from foreign countries despite the target being US/Canada. When I saw the targeting wasn't effective, I even set up specific geographic exclusions for every country != US/Canada and still the traffic was from mostly underdeveloped…

Display network has been like that for atleast 10 years that I have been using it.

Can I ask then, why continue to use it for 10 years?

Re: Ad Fraud on LinkedIn

#140
post #28
post #5

Hard to know how much is ad fraud and how much is people just not being interested in what is being advertised. Don't see why I should care about yet another webinar especially if I'm already a successful CEO and get five thousand webinar requests a day. Might click for more info but then after 10 seconds on the page (and seeing it's more BS) I'll probably bail. Same as this quote: >“You’ll see the call to action is…

"LinkedIn says 11, our server logs show 10, our actual reporting software's only showing 8 people. The only reason that we would not see them pop up in this logging tool is that they were on the site and bounced so quickly that the logging tool was unable to load and capture anything of their session [We've went back and forth will the session recording company multiple times to confirm that]" Seems awareness of ad/t…

The type of people that have adblocking on likely would not have clicked / loaded / seen the LinkedIn ad in the first place, no?
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